King’s College Maughan LibraryOur next visit was to King's College, The Maughan Library. King’s College was originally founded in 1829 and is one of the leading institutions of higher education in the world (Top 30). The Maughan Library is home to an array of wonderful treasures that our guides, Katie Sanbrook, Head of Collections, and Adam Ray, Collections Assistant, generously laid out for us to peruse. This was also one of my more favorite stops because Adam & Katie actually let us have hands on time with some of the items they selected for us (my tweet below got me a retweet from @KingsLibraries which, naturally, I was super excited about). After Katie & Adam gave us a bit of history about their collections we were treated to a tour of the library facility - though the historic aspect was fascinating I was most thrilled to see the modern marketing signs and banners that were displayed throughout advertising their library services. It made the King's College library feel a little bit like my university library back home.
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While studying for my MLIS, I am taking my love for diverse librarianship abroad for a semester to the heart of London in hopes of gaining firsthand knowledge and understanding about the history, organization, and maintenance of collections in historic British libraries, archives, and museums. ArchivesCategories |